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On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 13:39 +0200, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr - Nordic/Baltic - Java Web Services - Sun Microsystems wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Greetings,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I installed FC2 from the standard DVD on a machine with the following </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hardware:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Soltek SL75FRN2-L motherboard with nVidia nForce2 chipset</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- nVidia FX5200 AGP graphics card</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Onboard Realtek AC'97 audio</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Wireless M$ keyboard and mouse</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Install went pretty smoothly although it took forever before the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">graphical installer came up. After installation, I ran apt to update all </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">components including the kernel. I then found the following glitches:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- No sound (no manner of alsamixer fiddling would get it working)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Graphics identified as Generic nVidia. On my 17" NEC LCD monitor, with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">resolution set</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> to 1280x1024 (works perfectly in XP), the picture is larger than the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">monitor can display.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Does not appear to be something which can be fixed by resizing the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">image using the controls</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> on the monitor, it actually seems as if FC2 is sending a higher </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">resolution to the monitor than</FONT>
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You could be having a virtual screen larger than the real one.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> what is set in the display settings</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Tried installing the nVidia drivers from their web site. It installed </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(complained about the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> rivafb stuff but I don't have one so doubt that module loads) but then </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">when I reboot the system</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> hangs just after the graphical bootsplash screen has come up. The </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">nVidia splash screen did appear.</FONT>
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Well... the same happened to me also... the installer didn't change the driver in xorg.conf from nv to nvidia
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Booting into runlevel 3 only brings me as far as the login prompt, but </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the system does not</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> accept any keyboard input! Anything typed at the Login: prompt is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">instantly erased so I have no</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> possibility to login. Same thing if booting from the rescue CD. Could </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">this be anything to do</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> with my wireless keyboard?</FONT>
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Weird<BR>
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Try posting your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Maybe we can help and solve that annoying reinstall solution.<BR>
I'm not sure about that wireless keyboard thing... It's weird. If you can post-it from X11 because as I understand you have no keyboard in the console.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
d3vi1<BR>
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